Emmo von Roden

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Emmo von Roden
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Birth name Emmo Maria Max Wellhausen
Birth date 13 June 1861(1861-06-13)
Place of birth Hannover, Kingdom of Hanover, German Confederation
Death date 25 July 1945 (aged 71)
Place of death Potsdam near Berlin, Allied-occupied Germany
Allegiance  German Empire
 Weimar Republic
Service/branch War and service flag of Prussia (1895–1918).png Prussian Army
Iron Cross of the Luftstreitkräfte.png Imperial German Army
Freikorps Flag.jpg Freikorps
War Ensign of Germany (1921–1933).png Reichswehr
Rank Major General
Battles/wars World War I
Awards Red Eagle Order
Prussian Crown Order
Iron Cross
Relations ∞ 1891 Elisabeth von Strempel

Emmo Maria Max Wellhausen, as of 1882 von Roden, was a German officer of the Prussian Army, the Imperial German Army, the Freikorps and the Reichswehr, finally Generalmajor (Major General).

Life

Lieutenant Colonel Emmo von Roden (1914), commander of the Jäger-Regiment zu Pferde Nr. 11 in Tarnowitz (Upper Silesia)

Emmo von Roden joined the Prussian Army on 26 September 1882 as an officer candidate and served with the 2. Hannoversches Ulanen-Regiment Nr. 14 in Verden.[1] He later was commanded to the Prussian War School (Preußische Kriegsschule) and was subsequently commissioned in 1884, serving with the 4th Squadron (4. Eskadron). In 1891, serving in the 5th Squadron (5. Eskadron), he was appointed adjutant of the regiment. At the beginning of 1895, he belonged to the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Hanover Uhlan Regiment No. 14 in Mörchingen.

From 24 May 1898, he served as commander of the 4th Squadron of the Westphalian Uhlan Regiment No. 5 in Düsseldorf. On 16 June 1900, he was appointed as a teacher at the Military Riding Institute and was appointed commander of the 5th Squadron of the Grenadier-Regiment zu Pferde "Freiherr von Derfflinger" (Neumärkisches) Nr. 3 in Bromberg on 18 August 1905. On 17 May 1910, he was appointed commander of the Paderborn Officers' Riding School as the successor to Major Paul Seiffert. On 1 October 1913, he was appointed commander of the newly formed Jäger-Regiment zu Pferde Nr. 11 in Tarnowitz.

He took part in the First World War with his regiment from August 1914. With the mobilization for the war, the regiment took over the protection of the border with Russia in Upper Silesia. The regiment then moved to the west, where it took part in the battles of Neufchateau and Tintigny. The regiment provided courier and reporting services until August 1915, when it was deployed as infantry in the Vimy and Arras area in September 1915. At the beginning of 1916, the regiment was transferred back to the Eastern Front, where it was used to protect the borders in Courland, Lithuania and Russian Poland. In 1916, Emmo von Roden became commander of the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 7. At the end of the war, he was commander of the 30th Reserve Infantry Brigade.

Freikorps and Reichswehr

On 18 December 1918, he once again took command of the Jäger-Regiment zu Pferde Nr. 11 until the regiment was disbanded in Tarnowitz on 31 January 1919. He had also became active with the Freikorps at the end of November 1918 as commander of the 1st Marine Brigade, first in Kiel. This brigade emerged from the Iron Brigade. At the beginning of January 1919, he and his brigade were ordered to Berlin to combat the communist Spartacus uprising. From 25 February 1919, the brigade was renamed the von Marine-Brigade „von Roden“. He reported directly to the General Command of the Guard Corps (Garde-Korps) in Berlin. The brigade was disbanded in mid-May 1919.

On 1 October 1919, Emmo von Roden was accepted into the provisional Reichswehr and appointed commander of the Reichswehr Cavalry Regiment 9. When the 200,000-man army of the Reichswehr was formed, he was appointed commander of the 5th Cavalry Regiment in Stolp on 16 May 1920. He retained this command when the 100,000-man army of the Reichswehr was formed on 1 October 1920. His regiment was now known as the 5th (Prussian) Cavalry Regiment. He was released from military service on 31 May 1921 and retired to Potsdam. His successor as regimental commander was Lieutenant Colonel Kurt Kalau vom Hofe.

Family

Emmo was born the son of Dr. med. Julius Friedrich August Wellhausen (1801–1873),[2] court surgeon in Hanover as well as Royal Prussian military doctor (Oberstabsarzt), and his wife Antonie (also Antonia), née Gropp from Hameln. His parents divorced on 27 March 1868. Mother Antonie (d. 26 April 1899) then married Rittmeister Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Roden (d. 1 May 1888). Von Roden officially adopted his stepsons, and on 17 September 1882, both Emmo and his older brother received the right to take on the name "von Roden" and received their own coat of arms.[3] Emmos brother was:

  • Wilhelm Franz Otto Christoph (b. 15 December 1859 in Hanover), 1st Lieutenant of the Landwehr; ∞ Düsseldorf 15 August 1893 Klara Egen (b. 10 June 1876 in Düsseldorf), daughter of Richard Wilhelm Egen (1842–1877) and his wife Elisabeth Friederika Eleonore von Hurter. Klara's half-brother Arthur (b. 16 October 1880), from her mother's second marriage (∞ 19 October 1878) with mine director Peter Heinrich Engelbert Lipken (1841–1883), fought in WWI with the German cavalry and was killed in action as Rittmeister and battalion commander on 16 July 1918 in Rethel (France).

Marriage

On 20 January 1891 at Castle Helleringen, 2nd Lieutenant von Roden married his fiancée Elisabeth Cäcilie Pauline Hermine von Strempel (b. 28 August 1868 in Magdeburg), daughter of General of the Infantry Hugo Wilhelm Isidor Oskar von Strempel (1831–1897). They had four children:[4]

  • Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (b. 15 December 1891 in Sankt Avold, Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen; ⚔ 29 November 1917 at the river Stokhod), 1st Lieutenant and adjutant of the Königs-Ulanen-Regiment (1. Hannoversches) Nr. 13; sent to the enemy as negotiator (Parlamentär) with a white flag, but shot by the Russians.
  • Emmo Hugo Georg (b. 30 December 1892 in Sankt Avold, Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen; ⚔ 3 May 1945 in the area of Berlin / Brandenburg), Major General of the Wehrmacht; his death date is a bit uncertain, he was first reported missing. After the war, he was declared dead (murdered in a special camp by the NKVD) by a court with the date 31 December 1945. The German Red Cross later established, he was taken prisoner "in the area of Berlin" by members of the 1. Ukrainian Front on 2 May 1945 and was shot on 3 May 1945. Other sources state, Emmo von Roden and some fellow officers tried to escape, were subsequently captured on the same day and then executed (murdered).
    • ∞ Gut Simmelwitz (near Namslau, Silesia) 13 or 15 February 1936 widow Margarete Bertha Friederike Methner, née von Branconi (b. 12 October 1891 in Kreuz near Halle). Margarete had married Rittmeister of the Reserves Rudolph Methner on 6 August 1914. Rudolph Methner died on 18 October 1930 at the estate Simmelwitz. Their daughter Hanne-Lore "Lola" (b. 3 December 1924) was adopted by von Roden. The two-time widow and daughter Lola emigrated to New Zealand in 1952 and lived there in Otaki.
  • Hermine Sophie Emilie Mathilde (b. 31 October 1894 at Castle Helleringen;[5] d. 12 June 1962 in Kassel); ∞ Potsdam 4 April 1925 Rittmeister Burkhard Freiherr von Dörnberg (1887–1936)
  • Werner Kaspar Adolf Walther (b. 30 March 1896 in Walmen, Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen; ⚔ 15 October 1915 hilltop Hartmannsweiler Kopf), 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Company of the elite Garde-Schützen-Bataillon; The funeral took place on 21 October 1915 in Hannover.

Promotions

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  • 26 September 1882 Fahnenjunker (Officer Candidate)
  • 20 April 1883 Fähnrich (Officer Cadet)
  • 12 February 1884 Sekondeleutnant (2nd Lieutenant)[6]
  • 29 March 1892 Premierleutnant (1st Lieutenant)
  • 27 January 1898 Rittmeister
  • 27 January 1908 Major
  • 22 March 1914 Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel)
  • 1 November 1916 Oberst (Colonel)
  • 10 February 1921 Generalmajor (Major General) with Rank Seniority (RDA) from 1 Oktober or 1 December 1920 (depending on the source)

Awards and decorations (excerpt)

References

  1. ↑ von Roden, Emmo Maria Max
  2. ↑ Dr. med. Wellhausen was the uncle of Julius Johannes Friedrich Gustav Wellhausen, orientalist, Lutheran theologian and Old Testament scholar.
  3. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen Häuser, 1915, p. 772
  4. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Adeligen Häuser, Teil B, 1929, p. 537
  5. ↑ Another source states, she was born at Castle Kaltenstein in Vaihingen an der Enz
  6. ↑ Dienstalters-Liste der Offiziere der Königlich Preußischen Armee und des XIII. (Königlich Württembergischen) Armeekorps, 1918, p. 120
  7. ↑ Daniel Krause: Verleihungen von Preußischen Kriegs-Orden und Ehrenzeichen im Ersten Weltkrieg, p. 104
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